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October 8, 1997 Brown Meggs, CEO (Capitol Records), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 66 October 8, 1996 Geoffrey Finsberg, politician, dies at 70 October 8, 1996 Harold Watkins Shaw, musicologist, dies at 85 October 8, 1996 Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot, dies at 81 October 8, 1996 Susan Gautier TV producer-Smith, dies at 33 October 8, 1996 William Prince, actor (Ken Baxter-Another World), dies at 83 October 8, 1995 Christopher Keene, musician, dies at 48 October 8, 1995 Frederick Harry Baines, painter, dies at 85 October 8, 1995 John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man), dies at 82 October 8, 1995 Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator, dies at 45 October 8, 1994 Brian Hartley, mathematician, dies at 55 October 8, 1994 Diana Churchill, actress (Spider, Sally Bishop), dies at 81 October 8, 1994 John the King, CDA-minister of Social Businesses, dies at 68 October 8, 1994 Manual Pina, fashion Designer, dies at 50 October 8, 1993 Manke Nelis, [Cornelis Pieters], singer (Aunt Saar), dies at 73 October 8, 1992 Willy Brandt, chancellor of West Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78 October 8, 1991 Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (Sounds of the Night), dies at 75 October 8, 1988 Ernst Hermann Meyer, composer, dies at 82 October 8, 1985 Leon Klinghoffer, hijackers of Achille Lauro, threw him off boat October 8, 1985 Ricardo Bacchelli, playwright and poet (Il malino del Po), dies at 94 October 8, 1984 Frederick Brisson, producer, dies at 71 after a stroke October 8, 1983 Joan Hackett, actress (Group, Flicks, Rivals), dies of cancer at 49 October 8, 1982 Fernando Lamas, actor and director (Lost World), dies of cancer at 67 October 8, 1982 Philip J Noel-Baker, English minister (Nobel 1959), dies at 92 October 8, 1979 June Nash, actress (Strange Cargo, Dynamite), dies at 68 October 8, 1978 Jim Gilliam, coach (Los Angeles Dodgers), dies at 49 October 8, 1978 Karl Swenson, actor (Lara-Little House on the Prairie), dies at 70 October 8, 1978 Tibor Serly, Hungarian violist/composer (American Elegy), dies at 76 October 8, 1975 Alberto Hemsi, composer, dies at 78 October 8, 1973 Gabriel Marcel, writer, dies October 8, 1971 Christopher Dark, actor (Man Behind the Badge), dies at 51 October 8, 1971 Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, composer, dies at 79 October 8, 1970 Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75 October 8, 1970 Lucien Goldmann, Romanian/French sociologist/philosopher, dies October 8, 1969 Eduardo Ciannelli, actor (Waldo-Johnny Staccato), dies at 81 October 8, 1967 Clement R Attlee, premier pf Great Britain (1945-51), dies at 84 October 8, 1967 [Ernesto] Che Guevara [Serna], Arg/Cuban revolutionary, dies October 8, 1964 Charles Hodge, New York Univeristy professor (Answers for Americans), dies at 69 October 8, 1956 Dirk Koster, literary (New noises), dies at 69 October 8, 1953 Kathleen Ferrier, English alto singer, dies at 41 October 8, 1953 Nigel Bruce, actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman), dies at 58 October 8, 1947 Felix Salten, [Siegmund Salzmann], Austria writer (Bambi), dies at 78 October 8, 1945 Herman T Colenbrander, historian, dies at 73 October 8, 1944 Wendell Lewis Wilkie, Republican politician, dies at 52 October 8, 1940 Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78 October 8, 1927 Ricardo Guiraldes, Argentine poet and writer (Don Segundo Sombra), dies October 8, 1925 Abraham PC of Karnebeek, liberal foreign minister (1918-27), dies October 8, 1919 Eugene Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la Robe), dies October 8, 1912 Wilhelm Kuhe, composer, dies at 88 October 8, 1907 Alfred, Liechtensteins noble of Austrian Herrenhaus, dies at 65 October 8, 1904 Gustav Ratzenhofer, Austria sociologist/philosopher, dies at 62 October 8, 1897 Martin Pluddemann, composer, dies at 43 October 8, 1895 Charles Oberthur, composer, dies at 76 October 8, 1888 Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian Minister of Justice, dies October 8, 1869 Franklin Peirce, 14th president (1853-1857), dies in Concord NH at 64 October 8, 1865 Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer, dies at 51 October 8, 1864 Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, U.S. Union-brig-general, dies at about 34 October 8, 1862 James Streshley Jackson, attorney/Union-brig-gen, dies in battle at 39 October 8, 1862 William Rufus Terrill, Union brig-general, dies in battle at 28 October 8, 1842 Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer, dies at 68 October 8, 1834 Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, composer, dies at 58 October 8, 1803 Vittoria A Alfieri, Italian earl/writer (Filippo), dies at 54 October 8, 1793 John Hancock, U.S. merchant/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 56 October 8, 1772 Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer, dies at 60 October 8, 1771 John E Loovens, lawyer, dies at 76 October 8, 1754 Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones), dies at 47 October 8, 1728 Anne Danican Philidor, French composer, dies at 47 October 8, 1722 Gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral, dies at 80 October 8, 1686 Adriaen Paets, Rotterdams regent/diplomat, dies at about 55 October 8, 1683 Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer, dies at 76 October 8, 1680 Elisabeth, abbess, dies at 61 October 8, 1656 Johan Georg I, ruler of Saxon (1611-56, Peace of Prague), dies at 71 October 8, 1651 Isaac Elsevier, book publisher, dies at 55 October 8, 1613 Sebastian de Covarrubias bon Horozco, lexicographer, dies at 74 October 8, 1606 Jan, the Aged, count of Nassau/fathered 24, dies October 8, 1604 Janus Dousa, [Johan van de Does], literature/politician, dies at 58 October 8, 1253 Robert Grosseteste, English Bishop/expert (optica), dies October 8, 1094 St. Mark, the Evangelist, buried in San Marcos minstery in Venice October 8, 705 Abd al-Malik, kalief of Damascus, dies |